From the recently published hit piece on Ed Klein authored by Sydney Schanberg-who's usually an astute, relatively honest investigative journalist-to the conspiratorial, reflexively anti-GOP ravings of resident nutter James Ridgeway, to the ad hominem attacks tossed off by their culturally psychophrenic staff writer, Richard Goldstein, the Voice has already erected a phalanx against any perfectly legitimate inquiries made by individuals or groups who may doubt that Madame Hillary is sincere in her purported convictions.
Like every other leftist house media organ-without exception-that is in the process of shilling for her 2008 candidacy, they believe-incorrectly or not-that she is the salvation of the contemporary Democratic Party.
Defeating her-from their persepctive-would be the political equivalent of introducing genuine market-based reforms into the Social Security system, or achieving any other enormous, conservative-oriented policy victory.
It would be a death blow for the Democrats, which is why every Dem. Party apparatchik, every external, nominally independent "think" tank, such as the laughably named Center For American Progress, and in the case of the Village Voice, every platform for socialist thought that can exert even a marginal impact upon the American polity, will resort to anything; whether it be dissimulation, slander, libel, evasion, or any of a host of other purely diversionary tactics, in order to ensure that she is nominated and that she wins.
Period, end of sentence, end of discussion.
Well put (as usual). :')